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On 06/16/2012 12:01 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 1:27 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> FWIW, I recently tried Windows 8 beta (on virtualbox, of course) |
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>> and I found it unusable. Why? Because they are rushing to |
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>> catch up with gnome3. Their new desktop looks very much like |
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>> a smartphone. |
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>> I guess they figure the desktop will be extinct relatively soon |
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>> and their customer base will vanish unless they capture the |
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>> smartphone market. |
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> Or they realized that the "old" users doesn't really matter, because |
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> what is important is the younger generation being raised using |
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> smartphones and tablets, and which play with Wii, Xbox Kinect or PS3 |
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> Move. That's the important market, and the future. |
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> BTW, using GNOME 3 for more than one year in my laptop and desktop, |
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> and I love it. I also want a tablet with it. |
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Well, now it becomes clear. I just read that MS has officially |
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released Surface, its new Win8-powered tablet. |
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